Examples of Personification

Personification is a comparison that treats objects as if they were capable of the actions and feelings of people. It is giving human traits or qualities to an inanimate object.

• Time marches on.
• The flowers reached for the sky.
• The rolling brook sings a merry tune.
• The train's wheels ate up the tracks.
• The trees whispered their sorrows in breeze.
• The sun smiled at the children as they played in the park.
• The wind whispered your name to me.
• The dawn greeted me with a smile.
• The grass swallowed the dewdrops on an early morning.
• The moon is smiling at me.
• The cold wind caresses my cheeks.
• The lightning stabs the sky.
• The waves roll and tumble to the shore.

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